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‘Stick to the law’ Muslim fury as integration expert calls for burka ban in the workplace (express, Jan 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/751193/Burka-ban-work-place-integration-expert-Government-Austria
“WEARING the burka should be banned from the workplace, an integration expert has said.
Heinz Fassmann, a government consultant, said the state should not be shown to promote any religion and instead be “above all religions”.
The Austrian integration expert called for the burka to be banned within public services.
He told German newspaper Die Presse: “When asked whether teachers in public schools should be allowed to wear a headscarf, I would clearly say: No.”
However Mr Fassmann said the Christian cross could be worn in the classroom because the tradition has been “historically grown” in Austria.
Mr Fassmann’s controversial comments sparked outrage across Austria, with the country’s Islamic religious community (IGGiO) saying: “The state as an employer should stick to the anti-discrimination legislation”.
IGGiO spokesman, Carla Amina Baghajati, said she was angered that “something so anti-integrative comes from an integration expert”.
Austria has been trying to ban the burka – the Islamic face veil – since the summer of 2016 as Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz attempted to push through plans.
But the Socialist party of Austria (SPO) and other left-wing parties quashed the controversial plans…”
When will it end? Rapes and violence continue in Germany in first week of 2017 (express, Jan 6, 2017)
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/751082/Rapes-violence-attacks-Germany-2017
“VIOLENCE and sex assaults against young women in Germany are continuing into 2017 as the integration of migrants continues to fail.
Despite numerous campaigns, classes and continual acceptance of refugees from Chancellor Angela Merkel’s administration, the horror stories of 2016 have not stopped.
On the first day of 2017 a young woman was sexually assaulted as she looked for her boyfriend after a night out in Neumarkt in Bavaria.
The woman told police she was looking for her partner, who was staying at a youth hostel for refugees in Kastengasse, when she was attacked.
The victim had drunk so much alcohol she cannot fully remember the details of the assault, but told officers she was physically and sexually abused.
Two young Afghans were arrested the following day and were brought before the prosecutor at the district court in Nuremberg, Bavaria.
The men, believed to be aged about 18 remain in custody…”
When will it end? Rapes and violence continue in Germany in first week of 2017
It will end when the Islamic Invasion and Conquest is crushed and the invaders repelled.
Brussels police officers call in ‘sick’ over excessive workload (RT, Jan 6, 2017)
https://www.rt.com/news/372834-brussels-police-wildcat-strike/
“Dozens of police officers patrolling the Belgian capital’s Brussels West zone, which includes Molenbeek, a district that gained notoriety after the 2015 Paris attacks, have all called in “sick” in a wildcat strike to protest excessive workloads and exhaustion.
Brussels police officers who have been working both night and morning shifts refused to go to work on Friday, citing extremely heavy workloads that have pushed them to the limit.
Twenty-five officers whose night shift starts at 9:30pm local time contacted their commander via WhatsApp all at once to report that they were “sick,” Belgian newspaper De Standaard reported. Police Chief Johan de Becker managed to arrange last-minute replacements, saying: “I understand their concerns, but such actions cannot be tolerated.”
“It’s a move out of anger,” the police chief said, adding that “the officers complain about an excessive workload, notably related to the fight against radicalization.”
The zone the officers are responsible for, Brussels West, includes the predominantly Muslim Molenbeek district, which is often referred to as an “Islamist hotspot.” Many of prime suspects involved in the 2015 Paris attacks grew up and lived there, including terrorist mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the Abdeslam brothers, and Mohamed Abrini, who was also behind the 2016 Brussels attacks.
De Becker said the silent protest forced him to redeploy officers from other zones to take over duties. Brussels police lacks 125 men, which explains the longer shifts and heavier workload, according to the police chief.
“We are understaffed and need to work overtime. Logically, they are asking for reinforcement,” he said.
“They are talking about an overload of work, which I can understand. Things have not been easy either in 2015 nor in 2016,” he was quoted as saying by Reuters.
De Becker stressed that, despite the government’s failure to recruit more officers, the stay-at-home protest is unacceptable as “one cannot take the population hostage.”
“The people are fed up,” said Kris Verstraeten of the SLFP police union in response, noting “there are not enough police in the interventions brigade.”…”
Un ass’ole en France:
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/05/world/europe/cedric-herrou-migrant-smuggler-trial-france.html?smid=fb-share&_r=1
Jihadis radicalised in jails, on Web says Italian Premier (ansamed, Jan 6, 2017)
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/politics/2017/01/05/jihadis-radicalised-in-jails-on-web-says-italian-premier_485d7158-bcf9-4311-a966-27df27e1461f.html
“Italy’s relatively few jihadis are radicalised in jails and on the Internet, Premier Paolo Gentiloni said Thursday. Migration should not be equated with terror, Interior Minister Marco Minniti said, stressing that new centres for identification and expulsion (CIEs) in every Italian region would be smaller than before and there would be an emphasis on getting irregular migrants out of the country.
There is less Islamist radicalisation in Italy than other countries, Gentiloni said after meeting Italy’s commission on radicalisation Thursday. “But the fact that we have a lower number of radicalised persons or foreign fighters must not lead us to underestimate the phenomenon or the need to understand it,” he said. The commission on Islamist radicalisation has found that “radicalisation paths develop above all in certain places, in jail and on the Web, more than in other places that we may have followed a lot in the last years or decades”. He said “we must work on jails and on the Web, for prevention”.
We must say no to those who equate immigration with terrorism, Gentiloni said. He said the government’s aim was to combine reception policies with “rigour” in repatriations…”
Ummm … why should anyone be obliged to furnish vulnerable individuals with Internet access that might provide opportunities for Islamic radicalization?!? Where is it carved in stone that prisoners deserve anything more than the proverbial “three hots and a cot”?
Keep these stupid fü¢ks offline and isolate them from known, incarcerated jihadist recruiters.
What’s so difficult about that?
Turkey ‘can end US use of base if interests hurt’ (hurriyetdailynews, Jan 6, 2017)
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-can-end-us-use-of-base-if-interests-hurt.aspx?pageID=238&nID=108221&NewsCatID=352
“Turkey could consider putting an end to the use of its ?ncirlik base by international coalition forces against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) amid a row between Ankara and Washington over U.S. relations with the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD).
“?ncirlik is not a NATO base; everyone should know this. [The coalition forces] are there with Turkey’s permission. At this point, Turkey and the U.S. and the other coalition forces are in talks. If these talks come to a point that threatens Turkey’s interests and a result cannot be reached, then Turkey will consider all options,” Turkish Defense Minister Fikri I??k told Habertürk on Jan. 6.
The United States made a mistake by cooperating with the PYD in the fight against ISIL, I??k said.
“The U.S. chose the PYD as a partner in the fight with DEASH [ISIL]. From the beginning, we have been saying that this is wrong,” he said.
“We are saying to our counterparts: The PYD is the Syrian wing of the PKK [the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party],” I??k said.
He also added that the U.S. would also eventually pay the price for supporting the PYD.
“The U.S. made a strategic mistake. We are paying its price as the U.S. will also pay the price. All terror organizations have made their supporters pay the price,” I??k said.
Reiterating Ankara’s disturbance on the U.S.’ supply of arms to the PYD, I??k recalled that weapons given to Syrian Kurdish groups have subsequently been found in the hands of PKK militants in Turkey, ISIL jihadists in Syria and even on the international arms market.
“Arguing that ‘the U.S. is doing this to increase terror in Turkey’ would be exaggerated. We have no such evidence on it. But, at the end of the day, the U.S.’ support of the PYD and supplying weapons that have been used against Turkey by the PKK obliges us to make this argument,” he said.
In this respect, the anti-ISIL coalition’s use of Turkey’s ?ncirlik Air Base has come to the agenda of the public rather than the Turkish government, I??k said.
“The U.S. is our ally in NATO. The base of our alliance should be transparent and genuine. In the absence of these, it would be hard to sustain this alliance,” I??k said. “This does not mean that ?ncirlik will be closed overnight.”
While the U.S. and other countries are flying sorties against ISIL from the base, they are not providing air support to Turkey’s Euphrates Shield Operation in northern Syria.
Underlining that in the event that talks with U.S. officials on these issues would not yield a result Turkey will evaluate all options, the defense minister said, “If we come to the conclusion that the presence of the anti-ISIL coalition in ?ncirlik has a different objective than fighting ISIL, then we’ll do whatever is necessary. But it is still too early to say this.”
The coalition has been using ?ncirlik as a launch pad in their attacks against the ISIL since mid-2015 after Ankara and Washington agreed to an understanding. The Pentagon recently hailed Turkey’s agreement in opening the base to the coalition, describing ?ncirlik as “invaluable.”
The U.S. appreciates the access provided by Turkey to ?ncirlik, and looks forward to that continuing, the Pentagon said Jan. 5.
“We are operating out of ?ncirlik … and we look forward to that continuing,” Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook told a news briefing.
“Our people ask, ‘why are they [coalition forces] using the ?ncirlik Air Base [if the coalition does not provide aerial support to the Euphrates Shield operation]. We allowed not only the U.S. but also other countries’ jets to use ?ncirlik to jointly fight [ISIL],” Turkish Foreign Minister Çavu?o?lu told state-run Anadolu Agency on Jan. 4.”
He is trying to force PET into a new agreement that benefits Turkey and not the US, I don’t think he really wants to go down this road.
This reminds me very little of Subic Bay and Clark Air Base in the Philippines.
Go ahead, close Incirlik and lose gazillions of American defense dollars.
What with all those purges of Turkey’s government ranks, everyone knows that external defense support means nothing in the face of such a waning military threat.
Perish the fecking thought that Erdogan might
needdeceive Western interests about continued support for his presumptive jihadist caliphate.PS: America’s spy satellites can accomplish more than any 100 reconnaissance planes taking off from your worthless piece of scrub-infested sh!t airport.
Trudeau and family were New Year’s guests of the Aga Khan on his private Bahamas island
OTTAWA – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, his family and a few friends spent the New Year as the guest of the Aga Khan on the religious leader’s private island in the Bahamas, the National Post has learned.
The Aga Khan, who is the spiritual guide of the world’s 15 million Ismaili Muslims, has been a friend of the Trudeau family for years, beginning with Pierre Trudeau.
“Canada has come to share a close relationship with the Aga Khan and bestowed honorary citizenship on him in 2009,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said in a statement issued Dec. 13 on the occasion of the Aga Khan’s 80th birthday. “I am proud to call His Highness both a mentor and friend. He has shown time and time again that no matter our faith, where we were born, what colour is our skin, or what language we speak, we are equal members of this world.
The Aga Khan also has long ties to Canada, including having the distinction of being the only faith leader to ever speak to a joint session of the House of Commons and Senate. He did that in 2014 at the invitation of former prime minister Stephen Harper.
The Aga Khan is also the founder and chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network, one of the world’s largest development networks.
That development network has been a significant recipient of Canadian foreign aid, receiving $310 million for 16 projects since 2004. Most recently, the Trudeau government granted the Aga Khan Development Network $55 million over five years to improve maternal and child health in Afghanistan.
more :
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/trudeau-and-family-were-new-years-guests-of-the-aga-khan-on-his-private-bahamas-island
Chris Selley: Justin Trudeau’s vacation with the Aga Khan proves the details matter
Earlier this week, I argued the initial refusal of the Prime Minister’s Office to divulge the location of Justin Trudeau’s vacation, in even the most general terms, was cause for concern — even more so once it turned out the answer was so apparently anodyne: Trudeau and family had flown to the Bahamas, the PMO explained, and were holidaying somewhere in the area. In my view, that was all that needed to be said at the time. That the PMO would be so hesitant to release such harmless information augured poorly, I argued, for how it would deal with things it really didn’t want Canadians to know.
A steady torrent of objections began filling my inbox. Are politicians not entitled to private lives? “Get a life!” I was admonished at least twice. “If we continue to belittle government and treat them with suspicion they will likely return the compliment,” one very polite correspondent suggested. Even some people clearly unenamoured of the PM — including one who referred to him as “Turdo” — suggested I was being quite ridiculous. “Your write-up is useless!” he complained.
A year earlier, the PMO had refused to divulge that the Trudeaus were in St. Kitts, until TMZ tracked them down. I suspected the same thing was happening again: they were enjoying a fairly conventional vacation, by the standards of people with significant means, and for some reason the PMO just didn’t want anyone to know about it. But then a little birdie alighted on my shoulder with some solid intel: the Trudeaus had been guests of the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the Ismailis, on his lavish private island, Bells Cay.
The PMO initially refused to confirm this to my colleague David Akin, but eventually came clean. “As you are aware, his Highness and the prime minister have been close family friends for many years,” Kate Purchase wrote in a statement Friday. “As is the usual course, the prime minister will be reimbursing the costs of his (and his family’s) flights to and from Nassau.”
Why, I was repeatedly asked, would journalists bother demanding to know where the PM is on vacation? This. This is why. If journalists hadn’t asked, we might never have known something that is — at the very least — unambiguously in the public interest. Since 2004, as Akin reported, federal taxpayers have handed the Aga Khan Foundation $310 million in foreign aid, including the current government’s recent commitment of $55 million over five years for aid work in Afghanistan.
By all accounts the Aga Khan is a fine fellow and his foundation does wonderful work. And he is, as Purchase said, a close friend of the Trudeau family. But there is a reason his foundation is formally registered as an organization that lobbies the federal government: it’s competing for Canadian taxpayers’ money with which to do those good works, and that competition is supposed to be reasonably transparent. And it seems the Aga Khan just gave the Prime Minister of Canada and some of his friends and family a free vacation in paradise — one even the Trudeaus might struggle to afford on their own. Many will quite understandably perceive that as a conflict of interest. And there is no indication Canadians ever would have known about it had Trudeau and his office been left to determine the appropriate level of disclosure.
Indeed, had the PMO just said right off the bat that the family was in the Bahamas, media inquiries might have been rather less intense. Instead it defaulted to secrecy, piquing journalists’ interest all the more, and now we know they were concealing something that mattered. “Demanding to know what the government is doing, like demanding to know what it’s spending, can never be a piecemeal undertaking,” I argued in my original column. You can’t let it off the hook when things seem to “not matter.”
Again, people asked: Why? Again: This. This is why.
http://news.nationalpost.com/full-comment/chris-selley-justin-trudeaus-vacation-with-the-aga-khan-proves-the-details-matter
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/peel-school-board-changes-controversial-decision-on-muslim-prayers/article33533206/
Surprising that the Globalist Mail actually did an article on this. In any case, the commenters are not impressed.